{"id":1569,"date":"2015-09-18T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2015-10-20T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T07:25:27","slug":"a-conversation-with-jessica-hopper-118-oct-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-jessica-hopper-118-oct-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Jessica Hopper (118, Oct 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jesshopp\">Jessica Hopper<\/a>\u00a0is coming to town for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hwch.net\/\">Hard Working Class Heroes 2015<\/a>. The Chicago-based music and culture writer is a senior editor at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/\">Pitchfork<\/a>\u00a0and editor-in-chief of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thepitchforkreview.com\/\">The Pitchfork Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/jessica-hopper-feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1570\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/jessica-hopper-feature.jpg\" alt=\"jessica-hopper-feature\" width=\"1200\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her latest book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/featherproof.com\/products\/the-first-collection-of-criticism-by-a-living-female-rock-critic\">The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic<\/a>(Featerproof Books), presents a snapshot of her 20 years to date in the critic business with ace pieces on R Kelly, Lana Del Rey and Hole, ruminations on the visceral excitement of riot grrrl and a poke around the emo movement\u2019s problem with women. In our book, she really is one of the finest writers in the game \u2013 and she\u2019s also got a hell of a lot of powerful, passionate good sense to make about sexism in the music business, as this recent hugely acclaimed keynote from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigsound.org.au\/\">BIGSOUND<\/a>\u00a0conference in Brisbane shows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"theMusic @ BIGSOUND: Jessica Hopper Keynote Speech\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1u4lFf6uQJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aside from her appearance on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hwch.net\/index.php\/conv\">a panel about music journalism at HWCH Convention on Saturday October 3<\/a>, Jessica will also be taking part in an one-on-one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>conversation with myself, as well as reading from her recent book, at the HWCH Box office, Green Party Pop Up Shop, 90 South Great Georges St., Dublin 2 on Sunday October 4. I don\u2019t know about Jessica, but it will definitely be the first interview I\u2019ve done in a former dry cleaners and launderette. Doors for this all-ages event open at 5.30pm and the interview kicks off at 6pm. Admission is free, but is on a strictly first come first served basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Hopper\u00a0is coming to town for\u00a0Hard Working Class Heroes 2015. The Chicago-based music and culture writer is a senior editor at\u00a0Pitchfork\u00a0and editor-in-chief of\u00a0The Pitchfork Review. Her latest book,\u00a0The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic(Featerproof Books), presents a snapshot of her 20 years to date in the critic business with ace pieces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-jessica-hopper-118-oct-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A conversation with Jessica Hopper (118, Oct 2015)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}